Jordie's shocking secret diary of sex abuse by Michael Jackson

0 Comments | Sunday Mirror, Sep 29, 1996 | by COLIN WILLS

With a wave of his gloved hand, Michael Jackson signed the cheque for 25 million dollars.

The world's biggest and richest pop star believed he had finally put paid to claims that he had sex with children by buying the silence of young Jordie Chandler.

Two years on, these allegations are still refusing to go away. While Jackson struts his stuff at the start of a year-long world tour, he is facing two multi-million-dollar law suits in the States which pull no punches in painting the Pied Piper of Pop as a paedophile.

Even more sensationally, American fans have been stunned by publication of Jordie Chandler's secret diary in a new book which tells in graphic detail how Jackson used his power and wealth to seduce the 13-year-old...and then win his silence.

Revealingly, in one entry Jordie writes: "Michael and I talked about what would happen if I told someone about our sexual relations.

"It was simple, he said. He would go to jail, I'd go to a children's home and my parents might be jailed on the charge of negligence.

"Michael told me, 'If someone asks you if we have done something, just deny it'."

But neither Jordie nor his parents are willing to keep silent any more. And Jordie, now 16, is willing to take the stand as the family seek pounds 40 million damages in court.

They are accusing Jackson of breaking an agreement never to discuss the case by denying on a TV talk show that he ever molested Jordie.

Ex-bodyguard Jerome Johnson, who is suing Jackson for wrongful dismissal, is adding to the star's problems.

In his lawsuit he claims that he smuggled boys into the singer's bedroom. He also alleges that he had to keep estranged wife Lisa Marie Presley away from Jackson's bedroom during a stay in Las Vegas because he had two young boys with him.

But it is the diary - the cornerstone of a book by Victor Guiterrez - that is the most damning.

With childlike innocence, Jordie tells how he wandered into Jackson's bedroom at his fabled Neverland ranch and found a group of young boys playing a slot machine that paid out $100 bills...naked.

Jackson assured him it was to make sure no one could cheat by hiding trick devices in their clothes. He also made sure the boys knew they should never tell anyone else about the game.

Guiterrez says the star mounted a calculated campaign to seduce Jordie. And Jordie's account of their time together bears this out.

Early on in their relationship, Jordie recalls: "Michael's kisses were so passionate. He touched my hair and put his tongue in my ear."

In Los Angeles, Jordie adds: "We kissed with Michael touching me all over my body - but only on top of my clothes."

In Monaco, where Jackson was receiving a music award, Jordie tells how the singer invited him to have a hot bath.

"While I was taking off my shirt, Michael took me in his arms and began to kiss me," says Jordie.

"Michael finished taking off my shirt and then took off my trousers. When I was left only in my underwear, he pulled them down and took them off with his teeth."

They got into the bath hand-in-hand and Jordie then tells of the "games" Jackson taught him to play as they sat among the soap suds. Those "games" included oral sex and mutual masturbation.

As they dried off, Jackson assured Jordie that what they had done was OK.

To prove it, he recited a list of the other boy "lovers" he had had in the past.

Incredibly, Jordie had been accompanied on the trip by his mother June and his little sister Lily.

On a previous trip to Las Vegas, June had discovered that Jordie and Jackson had shared a bed for the first time. Incensed, she confronted Jackson, who burst into tears.

He assured her: "Ours is a friendly, honest, true and loving relationship. I don't see anything wrong with Jordie and I sleeping together.

"From then on," Jordie notes, "Michael and I slept in the same bed."

The next day, Jackson bought June a Cartier bracelet worth 12,000 dollars and gave it to her along with a note "thanking her for her friendship".

One of the ways Jackson allegedly persuaded Jordie to participate in the sex games was by detailing his sexual activities with another boy, Brett Barnes. "If Jordie, wouldn't do the same," he claimed, "perhaps Jordie doesn't love me as much as Brett loves me."

Jordie's father Evan was divorced from his mother and he reeled back in shock when Jackson came to stay - and he found him in his son's bed.

"Jordie was in the foetal position, with Michael hugging him from behind," says Evan. "Michael's arm was in front of my son's body with his hand resting in my son's crotch area.

"I was extremely confused. I didn't want to start a fight with a high emotional charge when I might hurt my son."

Evan says Jackson insisted in sleeping in the same room as Jordie and Jordie's stepbrother Nikki. "I thought that it was because he was a simple person who didn't need luxury," he says.

Jordie says Jackson joined him in his bunk bed where they masturbated each other. It had a serious affect on Nikki.

"Next morning he woke Nathalie and me up, asking if it was all right for two boys to get married," Evan recalls.